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| 20080209513 | Systems and methods for preventing an attack on healthcare data processing resources in a hospital information system - A system comprising a switching entity disposed between healthcare data processing resources and non-healthcare data processing resources. The switching entity is capable of operation in a first state in which an end user device is communicatively coupled to the healthcare data processing resources to support a healthcare session and a second state in which the end user device is communicatively coupled to the non-healthcare data processing resources to support a non-healthcare session. If the authentication request message is received while the switching entity is operating in the second state and a particular non-healthcare session is in progress, and the selected authentication entity is the healthcare authentication entity, initiating a memory purge at the end user device. Attacks on the healthcare data processing resources, both from the non-healthcare resources directly and via the end user device, are thus prevented. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20090052385 | MULTIPLE ACCESS SERVICE CONVERGENCE - A mobile terminal is anchored in a control subsystem, which will function as the mobile terminal's home service subsystem. Call signaling for an incoming call is routed to the control subsystem, which will provide call processing. The call processing may include determining how to route the call to the mobile terminal. Call signaling may be provided to the mobile terminal via the packet subsystem while the bearer path for the incoming call may be established to the mobile terminal though either the circuit-switched subsystem or the packet subsystem. When the mobile terminal is capable of supporting local wireless communications, the bearer paths for incoming calls may be provided via a local wireless subsystem. The subsystem chosen for the bearer path may be based on whether there is sufficient bandwidth to support the bearer path over an available packet-based connection. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090161842 | INTERACTIVE WEB INTERFACE FOR INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE - Described are a system and method for establishing a communication session between an end user and a communication destination of an interactive voice response (IVR) system. A click-to-call server transmits a web page over a network for display in a browser window at a client system. The web page presents a web menu corresponding to an IVR audio menu of the IVR system and has a link by which the end user of the client system can submit a click-to-call request. The click-to-call server receives a click-to-call request from the client system over the network in response to activation of the link in the web page. The click-to-call server sets up a communication session between a communication device identified by the end user and a communication destination of the IVR system in response to receiving the click-to-call request. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090161843 | DELAYED MULTIMEDIA SESSION - Described are a system and method for multimedia communications over a communication network between a calling party and a called party. A request to establish a SIP (session initiation protocol) session with the called party is received from a SIP-enabled communication device of the calling party. In response to the request, a voice connection is established between the SIP-enabled communication device of the calling party and a communication device used by the called party. Without terminating the voice connection between the SIP-enabled communication device of the calling party and the communication device of the called party, a second connection for transferring media other than voice is established between the SIP-enabled communication device of the calling party and a computing device used by the called party. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164639 | INTEGRATED WEB PORTAL FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATIONS WITH AN INTENDED PARTY - Described are a system and method for presenting, to a first user, information about a second user to enable the first user to select an appropriate communication means for communicating with the second user. A service node receives from a web browser executing at a communication device used by the first user a request for a web page associated with the second user. The service node collects information related to a current status of activity of the second user, determines one or more options for establishing communications with the second user, and transmits to the first user the web page having the current activity of the second user and the one or more communications options. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164645 | REAL TIME COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WEB AND SIP END POINTS - Described are a service node and method for establishing a communication session between a non-SIP (session initiation protocol)-enabled computing device and a SIP-enabled communication device. The service node includes a web server component for establishing a web browser-based connection with a non-SIP (session initiation protocol)-enabled computing device over a first network. A SIP user agent of the service node establishes a SIP-based connection with a SIP-enabled communication device over a second network. Service logic establishes a transfer of media between the non-SIP-enabled computing device and the SIP-enabled communication device using the browser-based and the SIP-based connections. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090234874 | AFFINITY LIST GENERATION - The present invention relates to analyzing communications involving a given user and determining a ranked list of the most relevant contacts for the user based on the analysis. As subsequent communications are analyzed, the list may be updated in a systematic fashion to provide a dynamic and up-to-date ranking of the most relevant contacts for the user at any given time. By having access to an up-to-date, ranked list of their most relevant contacts, the user can more readily initiate communications with others and avoid searching or sorting through more traditional contact listings. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090292376 | PLAYLIST EXECUTION IN A SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT - The present invention relates to generating and executing a playlist in a scheduled programming environment. In one embodiment, a media content recommendation for select media content is received from a first entity. The select media content for the media content recommendation is then added to a playlist for a first user. The playlist will identify numerous media content items to be consumed at particular times, in a particular order, or a combination thereof. The playlist is provided to a content control function, which controls, either directly or remotely, a scheduled programming interface (SPI) device to execute the playlist. The SPI device effectively consumes the media content items of the playlist in an automated fashion. Consumption of the media content items may include presenting the media content to the first user via an audio or video monitor, recording the media content in local or remote storage, or a combination thereof. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100070488 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON AFFINITY CRITERIA - The present invention relates to searching content databases and ranking the search results of the searches based, at least in part, on affinity criteria for a particular user. Notably, a given user will communicate through various means with contacts. The identities of some, if not all, of the contacts with which the user communicates are used to create an affinity list. For each contact in the user's affinity list, a record of the items that have been accessed by that user is maintained as access history information. Each contact may have access history information, and the collection of the access history information for some or all of the contacts in the user's affinity list is generally referred to as affinity criteria. When the user initiates a search for items in contact databases, items returned from the search are ranked based, at least in part, on the affinity criteria. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100153497 | SHARING EXPRESSION INFORMATION AMONG CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS - Participants in a conference are associated with communication terminals, each of which including an expression client that is configured to interact with an expression control function. When a first participant desires to share expression information, the first participant may select expression information representing a desired expression via a first expression client provided by the first participant's communication terminal. The first expression client will provide a corresponding expression request to the expression control function, which will process the expression request and provide an expression instruction to one or more of the expression clients of the participants. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100157013 | WEB BASED ACCESS TO VIDEO ASSOCIATED WITH CALLS - In a communication environment where a voice bearer is established between a multimedia terminal of a first user and a voice terminal of a second user to allow voice communications between the first and second users, the present invention allows the second user to gain access to video content of the first user through a web session. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100157016 | SCALABLE VIDEO ENCODING IN A MULTI-VIEW CAMERA SYSTEM - The present invention employs scalable video coding (SVC) in a multi-view camera system, which is particularly suited for video conferencing. Multiple cameras are oriented to capture video content of different image areas and generate corresponding original video streams that provide video content of the image areas. An active one of the image areas may be identified at any time by analyzing the audio content originating from the different image areas and selecting the image area that is associated with the most dominant speech activity. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100158232 | ACCESSING RECORDED CONFERENCE CONTENT - The present invention provides participants in a conference and any other authorized users access to recorded content from the conference. In one embodiment, the conference output is continuously buffered to provide the recorded content as the conference progresses. At any time while the conference is in progress, a conference participant or other authorized user may access the recorded content to review the audio or other media information that has been recorded so far in the recorded content. In another embodiment, after the conference is over, the recorded content may be archived and made accessible to the conference participants and others via the conference system, which will keep track of the location of the recorded content and conference with which it is associated. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161424 | TARGETED ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD - As an advertisement is presented to the user via a user terminal, the user terminal may generate voting information in response to a specific user input that bears on the user's interest in the advertisement or based on actions or behaviors of the user in association with the advertisement being presented. When specific user input is provided, the user is essentially providing direct feedback as to whether the advertisement is of interest. The voting information is provided to the targeted advertising system, which will update the preference information based on the voting information such that the user's interest in the various advertisements is reflected in the preference information. As new advertisements are selected for the user, the selection of the advertisements is based on the updated preference information, which is systematically updated as voting information is received from the one or more user terminals. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100162333 | READY ACCESS TO UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH TELEVISION CONTENT - The present invention provides a technique for making uniform resource identifiers (URIs) that are associated with television content that has been viewed by a viewer readily accessible to that viewer. Television content that is being viewed at any given time is monitored, and URIs that are associated with television content that has been viewed are automatically identified without human intervention and subsequently made available to the viewer via a content service. The content service may be a web server that is accessible by the viewer via a browser application running on the viewer's communication terminal. The viewer may access the content service to retrieve the URIs, which may be used to retrieve web content associated with television content from an appropriate web server via the communication terminal. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100177636 | Flow Admission Control in an IP Network - A flow admission control module for IP traffic types monitors network topology and usage. A new flow is not admitted if it is determined that the flow would push the utilization of available bandwidth reserved for the traffic type on a link in the associated path beyond a predetermined threshold. The admission control module may, as a result of dynamic changes to network topology capacity, re-compute the link utilization for effected active flows The admission control module may also account for protection regimes in flow admission calculations. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100318668 | USING REACHABILITY INFORMATION TO FACILITATE PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATIONS - The present invention allows originating endpoints to obtain reachability information from a directory service, which collects contact and related information from available users. When initiating a peer-to-peer communication session to an endpoint of a destination user, the originating endpoint will access the directory service to obtain reachability information for the destination user. The reachability information may contain one or more addresses, one of which will be a peer-to-peer communication session address. From the reachability information, the originating terminal will determine an appropriate address to initiate communications with the destination user. The reachability information may identify multiple addresses, where only certain of the addresses may be peer-to-peer communication addresses and other addresses may be used to establish other types of sessions through disparate types of networks. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100331055 | Mobile Fast Alerting - Where a separate bearer channel is required to be set up in a mobile network to complete a hybrid VoIP call on the mobile network as specified in 3GPP ICS standard TR 23.892, an alerting process may be started after a provisionable delay rather than upon completion of the network call setup. This allows the mobile network user to start responding to the impending call before signaling of the call has been completed, so that the person can answer closer in time to completion of call signaling. Additionally, the person who placed the call may be provided with ringing feedback to make it sound like the call has been completed. The amount of delay between receipt of a SIP invite and the onset of an alerting process may be specified in the mobile handset or may be specified as a header in the SIP invite. The amount of delay may be fixed or adjusted based on feedback. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110164611 | AUTOMATED ATTENDANT MULTIMEDIA SESSION - An automated attendant system is made multimedia capable by adding a combined user agent to the automated attendant. A search is done to verify that the caller to the automated attendant has combined user agent capabilities. If so, the caller receives multimedia content from the automated attendant's combined user agent so that the content may be presented on the caller's computer to assist the caller in navigating through the automated attendant's menus and options. Upon selection of a desired connection from the menus and options, the automated attendant's combined user agent helps the caller be connected by voice to the selected connection. | 07-07-2011 |
